Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Their main goal is to close it down, and I know that because they don't want a black hip hop bar in Lawrence. It's a racial issue.